Friendship Is Magic: Prime by Darkryt Orbinautz
Act 1
Chapter 5
"Partners"
"Discord?" Megatron inquired.
"Discord is a Spirit of Disharmony who manifest himself as a Draconequus. Long ago, he ruled Equestria with his mismatched claws and caused suffering and misery for Earth pony, pegasus, and unicorn alike. Me and- I mean, I confronted him and used the El- my unique power to turn him to stone." Celestia explained, correcting herself on some bits she didn't want Megatron to know.
Megatron grunted. "There's something you're not telling me, Celestia."
Celestia shrunk against Megatron's steel gaze. "I...I am sorry. Discord's magic is terrible and horrifying. It corrupts your memories and warps your friends...Forgive me, if I do not wish to relieve those grim, dark moments."
Megatron curled his lips to frown, "I...suppose I understand. But if what you're not telling me becomes important later, I will press you for it."
"Of course, My Lord."
Lightning from the cotton-candy clouds fell upon a tree, turning from a tree to an ice sculpture of a tree.
"Discord is a wily foe, and he will most likely lure you into a trap to steal the crown from you."
Megatron snarled, "I think not." he proceeded to walk towards the door.
"W-what do you mean, 'you think not'?" Celestia shouted.
"I mean, Celestia, that I will be finding Discord...and putting an end to him."
"You...you don't understand! He's the..." Celestia paused and cleared her throat to prepare the Royal Canterlot voice. "SPIRIT OF CHAOS AND DISHARMONY!"
Megatron stopped his pace abruptly and calmly turned back around.
"I do not believe in spirits."
He exited the room.
Celestia's thoughts turned to how her enemy was loose once more.
How could this happen? How could've Discord escaped AGAIN? Celestia thought, I know...When Harmony is disrupted -such as Megatron ruling- the seal on him weakens...
Celestia signed and looked Soundwave in the 'eyes'. "Do you think Lord Megatron will really be able to defeat Discord?"
Soundwave, for once, answered. Static buzzed from his head, then a recording of Megatron's voice played.
"Megatron is commanded by NO ONE!"
Celestia pondered if that was supposed to be her answer. She took a solemn gaze out the window towards the storm and shook her head.
Hey...Megatron said she could see Twilight now. Maybe she should go do that? But before she could exit the room, however, a blinding flash of white light filled it, and some chimeric creature with a mule's head,an lion paw and eagle talon, a eagle-coloured serpentine body, a red tail, two different sized yellow eyes with red pupils, a scaly red tail, a faun's left leg and a green dragon's right leg -Discord- floated arrogantly above her.
"Celestia, my little go-getter! It hasn't been nearly as long as since our last visit, compare four months, to, say...1000 years?"
Celestia snorted. "Discord, take what you want and get out!"
Discord chuckled haughtily, "Oh, Celestia! Who's to say what I want isn't you?" he punctuated the last word by coiling his serpentine body around Celestia's and massaging her with rhythmic bouncing.
Celestia was slightly perturbed as she thought about Discord knew how to hit all the right pressure points. It was only now that Discord noticed what was on-or rather, off- Celestia's head.
"Heeey...you're not wearing your crown!"
"Not my crown anymore. I gave it to Lord Megatron to-" She cut herself off for the third time today. If Discord knew of Twilight's condition ...of course, that was being optimistic and assuming he didn't know already. "For reasons I will not tell you."
"Uh-huh," Discord sneered, curling his face to match Celestia's. "And where might this 'Megatron' be?"
Thunder flashed again, but was drowned out by the roar of fire and destruction.
"DISCORD! SHOW YOURSELF! OR ARE YOU AFRAID TO FACE THE MIGHT OF MEGATRON!?" boomed Megatron's voice from wherever in Canterlot he was at.
"Looking for you, I believe." Celestia quipped.
Discord made a noise of discontent and snapped his talon, disappearing in another flash of white light.
Celestia stood in her spot, mulling over the situation she was in.
"I think I'll go see Twilight Sparkle..." she turned towards Soundwave, who had refrained from action during Discord's visit. "I mean, if that's okay?"
Soundwave nodded his head and beeped a positive sounding note. Celestia assumed that was a 'yes' and left the room.
Now alone, Soundwave continued to watch the candy storm. Just as his interest was beginning to dwindle, it was recaptured by a smoky, glittering, dark blue cloud in the shape of a tendril pushing and shoving through the cotton candy.
Soundwave left the room, knowing full well that whatever that meant, it was nothing his master wanted.
Megatron's Decepticon jet alt-mode cruised through the sky like a predatory bird, shooting and obliterating whatever one of Discord's creations got in his way. Thus far, his kill count consisted entirely of floating pies and stray cotton-candy clouds. Granted, the pies were all different flavors, but with how Celestia spoke of him so fearfully, Megatron was expecting something a little more...fear-worthy than...floating pies.
He was growing irritated quite quickly with his lack of progress, and was considered just blowing up all of Canterlot with his Fusion Cannon to see if Discord was even here at all. However, a sparkling orb appeared in the corner of his vision, distracting him from that train of thought. The orb soon dissipated, replacing itself with some...donkey lizard creature.
"Megaaaaaatrooon! I was told you wanted to see me?" it sang-sung.
Megatron converted to his hulking robot form and crashed into the ground, reminding the dirt of his power again by causing deep cracks. He locked his hellish eyes on the mule-serpent.
"You are Discord?"
"The one and only!" Discord said with a bow. "So, what did you want me for?" he said, floating and laying on his back in the air.
"I am reliably informed that you would seek...this." Megatron brandished the crown on his finger, Discord's reflection visible in it.
"Whaaaaaat? Who told you that?" Discord feigned surprise. "I would be perfectly willing to say. cut it in half and share it with you. Whaddya say, huh? Two Kings of Equestria? You know, an equal?"
Megatron snarled with an animal-like ferocity that even caused the arrogant Discord to be afraid.
The Draconequus just barely managed to avoid the blast of purple energy from Megatron's cannon, which was now smoking at the barrel.
"No one is an equal to Lord Megatron!"
Big Macintosh and Fluttershy walked down the hallway. They approached a red wooden Decepticon-sized door that was being guarded by two Vehicons, who targeted them with their arm-cannons. "Halt! Who goes there?"
"Easy, fellas. Ah'm just showing her around." Big Macintosh motioned for them to lower their weapons.
"Anyways, this 'ere is where the 'Cons go for medical care when they get banged up." Big Macintosh explained.
There was an the sound of an explosion and Knock Out shrieking in rage.
"Um..." Fluttershy mumbled, unsure how to explain her concern. The Vehicon understood though, and knocked tentatively on the door. "Knock Out, Sir? Are you all right in there?"
"Yeah, Fine!...well, no. But there's nothing any of you can really do about it!" Knock Out's voice carried from the other side of the door. "I'll let you know-whoo!- if that changes!"
"All right, then." The Vehicon muttered.
Celestia walked up to Big Macintosh and Fluttershy. "Hello again."
Fluttershy bowed out of instinct. "Well, howdy Celestia! What brings y'all over here?" Big Macintosh queried.
"For my excellent performance, I have been granted special permission to visit Twilight Sparkle, whom I'm told is in there." Celestia pointed towards the red door.
Fluttershy made special note of this.
"Welllll, Ah still got a few things to show Fluttershy here. Ah'll leave you to it, C'mon darling." Big Macintosh grabbed Fluttershy and dragged her beside him.
Celestia looked expectantly at the guards. One knocked on the door again,
"Yes?" Knock Out replied.
"Celestia would like to see her student." said the drone.
Knock Out stumbled out the door, setting himself against the door's arch for support. His white thighs and his arms were covered in soap, while his shoulders had a flower bed bouncing on them.
"Uh..." Celestia mumbled.
"Twilight's being a little...snippy." Knock Out explained, trying to bat the flowers on his left shoulder off. "Come on in if you're coming in."
Celestia trotted inside the door to the room, where Decepticon medical beds were scattered about, with shelves hooked to the walls full of equipment of all shapes and sizes.
Twilight was on one bed, broken tools surrounding her that were leaking green, purple, and blue fluids.
"Been trying to, ah...overcome the...technical difficulties." Knock Out explained.
Celestia coughed to get her attention. "Twilight? Twilight Sparkle?"
Twilight whirred her head to look at Celestia with her Energon-filled eyes. "Oh hi, Princess-lady!"
"Twilight, do you remember me?" Celestia asked with concern.
"Of curse' Ah do! You're the pretty Princess-lady!" Twilight answered.
Celestia signed. "Is there...anything else you remember?"
Twilight put on a worried expression. "Welll...I remember that my parents signed me up for a School For Gifted Unicorns, and that I used to like reading books...but that's it."
Celestia frowned deeply. "Tha-That's it? Nothing else?"
"Nope!" Twilight answered happily.
"Tell her about the voices, Twilight." Knock Out instructed.
Twilight whined.
"Voices?" Celestia asked.
"Yes...Twilight's been hearing voices. Voices she talked to me about. Voices I think she should be talking to you about. After all, not telling someone about a problem is an excellent way to make it worse...C'mon, Twilight Sparkle, you did it for me. Now do it for the nice...'Princess-lady'."
Twilight signed, "Fiiiine...Late at night, when I'm alone, I hear these voices in my head."
"What do they sound like?" Celestia questioned.
"There's a classy one, a harsh one, a soft one, an extremely annoying excited one, and a beckoning country one."
"What do they say?"
"They say they miss me...that they want me back...that they're my friends, but..."
"But?" Celestia snapped, "But? But what?"
"...I never had any friends. Never did, never will." Twilight answered flatly.
That was too much for Celestia to take. "I...I think I need to be alone."
Knock Out raised an eyebrow at this, but opened the door for her anyway, before Twilight could explain to her how putting the 'blue stuff' inside her makes the voices shut up.
Twilight, with the memories of the voices fresh in her mind, starting singing a song...a song that she didn't know where it came from, but it came to her nonetheless.
My Little Pony, My Little Pony
I like having this stuff in me,
(My...Little...Pony)
So why won't you voices leave it be?
Seeing things
Through Energon!
Why can't you see
It's so much fun!
Injecting it, is so easy,
So leave me alone, please!
(My...My...My Little...)
I've never had any frrrieeeeends!
Celestia dashed through the complex halls of the Fortress, the large structure suddenly seeming not large enough, until she found one that was abandoned. Once there, she fell to the ground...and tears started streaming from her eyes.
"Twilight, oh Twilight..." Celestia moaned. How could Twilight have forgotten her friends? Celestia wouldn't mind Twilight being unable to remember if her student at least had her friends, but now, with Twilight with neither nor...and Discord loose again...Celestia just felt like breaking down.
A Vehicon on patrol turned around the corner to see the weeping pony. "Oh! Hey,Celestia!...You seem upset. Can I...get you something? Smoothie? Maybe message your wings or...wax your horn?"
"N-no. I...I just want to cry right now. Thank you for offering, though." Celestia choked out. The Vehicon bowed and left.
To rub salt in the wound, Celestia suddenly got the nagging feeling she was forgetting something...a plan, of some sort...or maybe, even worse, that she was forgetting somepony that was part of that plan.
Discord summoned a holiday firecracker and pulled it open, causing a swarm of Parasprites to burst from it. The swarm gathered into one ball and quickly tried to made their way to Megatron, being blasted into nothingness by Megatron's powerful blast for their troubles.
There was a 'chh-chi-choo-choo-chink' and Megatron's cannon moved further up his arm, sticks and planks spouting out of his wrist, then clashing themselves together to one piece, forming a sword. Megatron charged and tried to swipe at Discord, who deftly floated and dashed away from the metal.
Discord charged up a ball of light in his paw and threw it at Megatron. It exploded, covering the Decepticon Lord in smoke. Discord enjoyed a hearty laugh as his apparent victory, but another purple blast of raw power blazing through the smoke showed the Silver Tyrant was by no means done for.
Megatron's body hummed as it charged up another shot, intended to strike down the mule-serpent, but it stopped abruptly when the light around the field suddenly disappeared and the chocolate rain subsided. Megatron threw his gaze towards the sky and saw a smoky, dark blue miasma with the the image of stars in it slowly,but surely slithering against the cotton-candy clouds, pushing them away or dispersing them.
Megatron glared daggers at Discord. "Now what are you doing?"
Discord threw his claws up in the air, "It's not me!"
Megatron didn't believe that, but a crackling noise coming from the miasma above kept him from voicing as such.
A lightning bolt flung down from the miasma, arcing and turning until it hit Megatron square in the chest, pushing the Silver Tyrant along the ground until it hit him against the side of a Canterlot manor, burying him beneath the rubble.
Discord gawked at the display, then looked up at the sky.
A hole appeared in the miasma, casting sunlight down in a holy display. Descending like an avatar of darkness, a large, black mare with raven wings and a pointed horn, a curled teal helm on her head and lightning buzzing around her like birds at a fountain, she spoke, her voice booming and thunderous
"WHO IS THE CRETIN THAT DARES TO CLAIM THE THRONE THAT IS NIGHTMARE MOON'S?"
Discord examined the pony bolting down from the heavens. There was something familiar about...what was it?
'Nightmare Moon' turned to see Discord floating there with a puzzled expression. She pointed her hoof at him "You! What are you doing loose!?"
"What do you mean 'what am I doing loose'? I'm doing what I do best! Causing Chaos!" Discord replied. He rubbed his eyes and stared at the black pony again. "Heeey...I know you!"
'Nightmare Moon's' eyes shrunk in panic. "I...uh...no you don't!" she objected.
"Yes, yes I do!" Discord countered, "You can't hide that behind that booming voice of yours...you're Princess Luna!"
"No I am not!" The black pony denied, desperately trying to keep her cover.
"Oh, you're not, are you?" Discord mocked, "Well, let's just see here..."
Before Discord could do anything, one of Megatron's Fusion blast just barely touched the both of them, singing an irrelevant portion of their wings off.
There were puffs And poofs As Megatron got up from beneath the rubble and brushed it off his body.
"It will take more then lightning to overcome ME!"
'Nightmare Moon' hissed and summoned another bolt of lightning to smash into Megatron. However, this one was intercepted by thin blue arm that braced itself in front of the Decepticon Lord.
"Soundwave!" Megatron exclaimed, "What are you doing here?"
Soundwave said nothing, but seemed to answer Megatron's question regardless. "Ah...yes. Sometimes, Soundwave, you're too good to me. I'll take the black one!"
Megatron charged at 'Nightmare Moon' while black tentacles spouted from Soundwave's back and launched at Discord, snapping him before he could react and slamming the chimera to the ground.
'Nightmare Moon' looked around the area for something to defend herself with. Her eyes locked a marble statue of a pony which she levitated and transformed into a giant sword. She spun the sword in front of her and had it clash against Megatron's blade. Both combatants separated their armaments once before clashing and grinding them together again in motions of fencing and parrying. 'Nightmare Moon' floated her's away from Megatron, then, while the Decepticon was preparing to thrust his sword, she struck her's across his chest, causing a huge gash that purple liquid began to drip from.
She took this moment to gloat, holding her sword up and yelling, "HAHAHA! I have cut you, Silver Tyrant! Give up now, for I...have...the poweeeer!"
Megatron unsheathed an not-yet-seen weapon from the arm his Cannon wasn't on. A pointed gauntlet, that was, for all intent and purpose, a brass knuckle with two small blades on the end, bar the fact it was silver. Raising it up, he took it and punched 'Nightmare Moon's' marble claymore, shattering it to uncountable pieces. Megatron snarled in triumph:
"The power...is mine!"
Fluttershy and Big Macintosh were waiting outside the Fortress' throne room doors, waiting for any new orders. Big Macintosh's mind was occupied with how -or if- Applejack would forgive him, while Fluttershy was thinking about Twilight Sparkle...how she was so close, and yet so far...
"Um...Big Macintosh? I'm gonna go see it those guards will let me see Twilight...if that's OK?" Fluttershy whispered.
"Fine by me, but they mite have somethin' to say about it."
Fluttershy lifted herself on her wings to where she remembered the red door being, where the two Vehicon's hadn't moved.
"You need something?" one of them asked politely.
"Um, yes...c-could I see Twilight Sparkle?" Fluttershy asked meekly.
The Vehicons turned to each other, hoping to convey a answer. One of them put it's hand to it's head, the communications soon following. "Lord Megatron? Another pony wants to visit the patient...yellow, with a pink mane. You sure? All right." The guard cut off his radio chat and turned back to Fluttershy. "Lord Megatron says you can, but under strict supervision."
"Oh...that's fine." the pegasus muttered. The Vehicons opened the door and gesture Fluttershy in, where Knock Out wasn't expecting another visitor. "Ehhh,...what's going on?" he asked with a headscratch.
"Megatron said this pony could see Twilight...under supervision."
Knock Out sign in understanding, "Ahh...all right, she's right there." he pointed towards the green crate. Fluttershy floated delicately up to it to see Twilight Sparkle laying on her back, her eyes still full of Energon and off-balance, like Ditzy's.
"Twilight?...Twilight, can you hear me?" Fluttershy whispered.
Twilight backed up into her crate at Fluttershy's voice. "You! You're one of the voices..."
Fluttershy didn't know what Twilight was talking about, but she went with it. "Um...yes. Yes I am."
"Go away!" Twilight snapped. "I don't need you!"
Fluttershy's eyes widened. "Y-you don't? But...Twilight, don't you remember me?"
"No!" Twilight barked, "I don't remember you, and I don't need you! I don't need any friends!" She spat out the last word with disgust.
A beep from Knock Out's head interrupted the conversation. "Knock Out here. Hmm?...Of course, I'll be right there, sir." Knock Out headed out the door, but not before ordering the Vehicon's to keep Fluttershy from letting Twilight out.
"B-but Twilight...don't you remember all the good times we had together?"
"No." Twilight answered with disdain.
"B-bu-but—but—but..." Fluttershy stammered, a tear forming in her eye, and she fell down to her stomach.
"Twiiii-Twiiiliiight!" Flutteshy whined desperately, closing her eyes to hide from reality. She felt a hoof on her chin, and opened her eyes to see it was Twilight's reaching out from a hole in the crate.
"...Fluttershy." Twilight said. "I remember, I remember...The Energon fogged up my head so very much, I'd forgotten..I...I'm so sorry."
Fluttershy got back to her hooves and wiped the tears from her eyes, "It's OK, Twilight...you're here now, with your friend. And that's all that matters."
Before the two ponies could say anything else, they heard the Vehicon's sobbing and saw them hugging.
"T-That was so precious!"
"She forgot her, and then she cried and then- and then she remembered her name! So sweet!"
Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy laughed. "All right, Fluttershy, let's get out of here!"
The Vehicons snapped to attention with their blasters trained on the ponies. "Sorry, but our orders were to make sure Fluttershy didn't let you out."
Twilight glared from her box, then surged magic through her, causing an explosion that sent what used to be her crate flying all over the room.
"Uh, okay." One of the drones remarked, "I...I guess that doesn't count as Fluttershy letting you out...but Megatron will be displeased if we don't put you back in."
Twilight 'humph'ed and blasted both drones with magic, turning their arm-cannons to flowers and their feet into dirt, binding them to the ground.
They looked down, then to each other and shrugged, "Well, at least this way we can't say we didn't try."
"Now, let's get out of here." Twilight instructed, and the two ponies jumped off the medic-bed and dashed out the door.
Big Macintosh was still waiting by the door when a GroundBridge opened up by it, Breakdown's vehicle skidding out from it in a hurry. "Hi Big Red! Bye Big Red!"
Twilight and Fluttershy turned into the corner of the hall just as Breakdown was turning out of it. Thankfully, he didn't run over either of them and didn't notice that Twilight was out of her crate.
Celestia flew in after Breakdown left and saw Twilight. "Twilight Sparkle? How'd you get out?"
"With a little..." Twilight gazed over to Fluttershy, "Help from my friends." Twilight remembered Celestia seeing her earlier, "Princess, about our talk from before, I...I'm so sorry."
Celestia raised a hoof for silence, "There will be time for that later. Right now, we need to get you out of here."
"The GroundBridge!" Big Macintosh shouted. "Ah'll help y'all through!"
Twilight gazed at her mentor, who nodded approvingly.
Fluttershy and Twilight, guided by Big Macintosh leaped into the green circle, barely making through before it dissipated.
Celestia smiled a little. Things were about to turn around quite quickly, from the looks of it.
She entered the throne room and trotted over to see how Megatron's progress against Discord was going.
"RRRAAAAAAGGGH!"
Breakdown yelled as he leaped over the roof of as yet to be destroyed building and slammed his hammer-arm into Discord's back, sending the Draconequus flying through the air, where he was stopped by Airachnid's claws. The spider-'Con swung him around for a circles, then tossed him aside to Knock Out 's direction, "All yours, Doc-bot!"
Knock Out took his staff and caught Discord on it like some warped tennis racket and filling Discord's body with electricity. The burnt and battered Spirit slid off Knock Out's staff, only to land in Knock Out's free hand. Knock Out put away his staff and converted the arm to a buzz-saw. "Don't worry," he mockingly assured Discord, "I'm licensed to cut people open." He thrusted his arm, intending to cut Discord, but the Spirt slipped away from his grip and caused Knock Out to jam the buzz-saw into his own hand. He winced in pain before separating them.
Shadows of ravens and bats swooped in from the sky and dived towards the ground, intending to damage the Decepticons, but they dispersed into smoke when Soundwave's tentacles smacked them dead-on.
Megatron stomped through Canterlot's streets, trying to find the raven-mare that he lost track of while summoning his reinforcements.
A bat-shadow launched itself at him, but a blast from his cannon destroyed it easily.
He snarled in growing aggravation, "Show yourself, Nightmare Moon!"
A thoomph that shook the ground harder then his own steps, and he turned around to see a black dragon with a purple underbelly several times even his size. It roared and bellowed purple fire at him, His arm turned red with heat when he raised to block the fire. When the flame subsided, he shot three blasts at the dragon, which practically bounced off it's hide. He snarled and fired four more, which just as much effect.
Letting out a furious, yet controlled howl, Megatron charged and leaped into the air, using rockets in his feet to gain height, he brought his sword up and slammed it into the dragon's snout, cutting it's chest and stomach along the way as gravity brought him back down to earth-level.
The dragon disappeared in a puff of smoke like the bat's shadow did, 'Nightmare Moon' floating roughly where the scaly beast's heart would've been.
"Well done, Silver Tyrant! Some have trouble realizing dragon's are immune to fire, and must be felled by steel." an observer might argue that Megatron's Fusion Cannon didn't count as 'fire', but Megatron wasn't the type to care about details.
'Nightmare Moon' lowered herself to eye level with Megatron and began to charging lightning in her horn. "Despite that, I am by no means finished!"
"Neither am I." Megatron countered, his Decepticon symbol beginning to glow. A glow that spread throughout his body in runic patterns, and changed his eyes from their hellish red to a soulless purple. A matching aura began to emanate from him, which he directed to his knuckle-weapon.
Lightning had built up around 'Nightmare Moon' to the point that she was inside a sphere made of the white plasma.
Megatron raised his fist, while 'Nightmare Moon' lowered her horn.
They both charged.
"YAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"SHEEEEEEEAAGGH!"
Megatron's fist impacted into 'Nightmare Moon's' sphere, causing an explosion of thunder and fire that sent Megatron skidding across the ground and 'Nightmare Moon' tumbling through the air.
Both were disoriented during the smokescreen following, but they regained their bearings once it cleared.
Megatron primed his cannon and fired, a shot which would've put an end to 'Nightmare Moon', had she not teleported in a flash of white light.
He contorted his face in irritation,
Soundwave, Airachnid, Knock Out, and Breakdown came rushing up shortly after.
"Megatron, Sir." Knock Out saluted.
"What?" The Decepticon Lord snarled.
"...Discord escaped from us." Airachnid informed him.
Megatron blinked, put his claw to his forehead, then removed it and screamed in rage as he aimed his Cannon towards the skies, forcing an enormous pillar of light from it and clearing the sky of miasma and cotton-candy alike. He let out an exasperated sign. "Return to your posts, everypony."
Breakdown and Knock Out were smart enough to not mention how Megatron was so upset he was getting his pronouns confused, but not Airachnid.
"...Everypony, sir?" Airachnid inquired.
"YOUR POSTS!" Megatron bellowed. The Decepticons obliged, scrambling to get away before Megatron decided to take his frustration out on them.
Fluttershy fluttered through the Ponyville Mine, looking for traces of her friends to inform them of the good news. Eventaully, rather then finding her friends, one of them found her, with Rainbow Dash rushing to her face. "Fluttershy! You...you joined up with those creeps!" She accused, pointing at the blazer Fluttershy had been given.
"Well, yes, but..."
"But nothing! First Big Macintosh, and now you? Unbelievable! And to think I-"
"Rainbow Dash, darling, that's enough." Rarity called out, pulling up their location with Applejack and Pinkie Pie.
"You can't entirely blame Fluttershy...After hearing that Big Macintosh had invited her to join the brutes- I mean, The Decepticons, I talked her into it."
"Well why would'ja do that?" Applejack snapped.
"Because I thought that she might be able to aide Twilight in escaping her captors." Rarity explained, "After all, during trying times, one mustn't underestimate the value..." she threw Rainbow Dash a glare, "Of double-talk."
Dash leered at Fluttershy and Rarity suspiciously, but she didn't lash out.
"So, um...Twilight's waiting for us with Big Macintosh." Fluttershy stated, with everypony's jaws dropping confusion and surprise.
Twilight and Big Macintosh paced around the cave area they had hidden Twilight in. During such, Twilight found a grey box with blue lines on it. She picked it up and gestured Big Macintosh to it. "What's... this?"
"That? That's just an Energon Cube. Holds the stuff after it's been processed." Big Macintosh answered, unaware of Twilight's previous...problem with the Decepticon's sustenance.
The Cube immediately became shaky in Twilight's hooves. The liquid within had felt so...very good while it was inside her. So nice and pleasant, like all the troubles in life just...disappeared.
She reached towards the corner of the Cube, intending to pry it open...
"Twilight, Sugarcube! Ya in here?"
"TWIIIILIIIIGHT!"
"Egg-head?"
Twilight switched her gaze back and forth between the ponies trotting into the cave and the Energon Cube in her hooves. She stopped and focused said gaze on the Cube and took in a deep breathe, then exhaled.
My Little Pony, My Little Pony,
(Myyyy Liiitttle Pony)
I'd forgotten what Friendship could be,
But then your tears reminded me.
With help
From my Friends,
Our troubles
Will soon end,
With -our hearts-
united as one,
We'll free Equestria
From Meg-a-tron!
The Energon from the Cube covered the outside of Twilight's hoof as she crushed the container in fury. She turned to see Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy all looking at her with concern.
"You okay, Twilight?" Applejack asked tenderly.
"Yeah," Twilight answered, bucking aside the remnants of the Cube. "I was a little...foggy there for awhile, but I'm okay now."
"Awesome!" Dash cheered, "So, you got a super-awesometastic plan to beat the 'Cons?"
Twilight smiled. "Yup."
"Awesome! What do you need? My aerial tricks?" Rainbow Dash offered.
"Mah strong legs?" Applejack added.
"Perhaps my eye for detail?" Rarity inquired.
"I need...Spike, a letter, a lot of rope...and...a Pinkie Pie Party." Twilight explained.
Everypony grunted, "Huh?"